Power aware data type refinement on the HIPERLAN/2

摘要

A power aware data type refinement performed on the data link control layer of the HIPERLAN 2 protocol is presented. Applying static and dynamic analysis on the initial specification code, the crucial data types in terms of memory access and storage are identified. Then proper data structures are selected and an efficient memory architecture is derived, meeting the time constraints and reducing the energy of the system memories. Experimental results show a reduction of the memory energy consumption up to 37% compared with the energy consumption of the memory architecture imposed by the initial specification code.